Automatic gas-lighter.



No. 040,350. Patented Jan. 2, |900. K. VDN VIETINGHUFF-SCHEEL.

AUTDMATIC GAS LIGHTER.

(Application led Aug. 18, 1899.\

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KARL "VON VIETINGHOFF-SCIIEEL, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

AUTOMTIC GSMLEGHTR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 640,350, dated January 2, 1900. Application filed August 18, 1899. Serial No. 727,684, (No model.)

Beit known that LKARL von VIETINGHOFF- SCHEEL, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Berlin, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Automatic Gas-Lighters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in automatic gas-lighters of the kind forming the subject of my previous patent application, Serial No. 695,455, and more especially to arrangements in such gas-lighters by which the lighting device proper is screened against the deteriorating action of the iiame.

The invention consists in extending the one leg of the clip carrying the lighting device and forming it into a screen.

The present invention shall now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a vertical section showing the parts in the position of rest before ignition; Fig. 2, a vertical section through the device, showing the position of the parts after ignition; and Fig. 3, a vertical section showing a Inodiiication.

g is the mica plate, fastened onto the chimney c by means of the clip 7' and pivoted to the same at s. The mica plate gis provided with the aperture d. The metal clip r liliewise carries the lighting device e' by means of the arm t.

The inner leg of the clip r is provided with a prolongation fu, which screens the lighting device against the action of the flame. This screen is so shaped that the lighting device will not be touched by the flame even when the plate g is raised into the position shown in Fig. 2.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the lighting device is not suspended from the arm 't by means of platina wires, but is instead directly fastened to the said arm, the necessary platina wires being in their turn fastened to the lighting device.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of mysaid invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim isl. In an automatic gas-lighter, the combination, with the chimney of a gas-burner, of a plate inovably hinged on and covering the top of the chimney and provided with an aperture, a lighting device arranged in said aperture, a clip carrying said plate and a screen formed at the inner leg of said clip and eX- tending beneath the said lighting device.

2. In an automatic gas-lighter, the combination, with the chimney of a gas-burner, of a clip mounted on said chimney, a plate hinged tosaid clip and arranged to cover the top of the chimney, said plate having an apn erture, a lighting device located in said aper:l ture, and a screen carried by the clip and eX- tending beneath the said lighting device.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my siglnature in presence of two witnesses.

KARL VON 'VIETINGIIOFF-SCIIEEL.

Witnesses:

HENRY HASPER, WOLDEMAR HAUPT. 

